Maybe it doesn't get expressed to college students enough, but internships/co-ops/volunteering are extremely important. It's the difference between getting an a

Maybe it doesn't get expressed to college students enough, but internships/co-ops/volunteering are extremely important. It's the difference between getting an awesome job soon after school and 5+ years after school. A few people I know have basically refused to get internships (as in they thought about applying to one, shrugged, and gave up). Meanwhile, I knew a girl who went to an extremely small, private, liberal arts college in a small town in the middle of no where and majored in "Sports Management". Meanwhile, she volunteered for the local ice rink's summer hockey camp and got a part time job working with a university's hockey team. She did two summer internships with different lower level professional hockey teams. Her first job out of school - assisting with an NHL team's youth hockey program. There is almost no way she would have gotten that job without her other experience.